I have long been advocating for a massive hammer to smash your head, destroying the brain almost instantly and killing you on the spot but somehow that’s a bad look
Well we shouldn’t! We should all organize in unison. Let’s form unions again! There is no better way to organize workers than through a union. How to start organizing; AEIOU; Agitate, educate, inoculate, organize, unionize. Go go go go! Lol
If they only did that for meth, all our worlds problems would have started to be solved, and then a lot of other stuff started, nothing really ever finished but hell we'd be busy.
Pacemaker, dynamite, adjustable wrench, the Celsius scale, ultrasound, spherical ball bearings, blowtorch, three-phase electric power, Bluetooth, and the fucking ZIPPER.
also the Linnaeus classification system for all living things, and discovering like half the elements in the periodic system (discounting the very unstable elements)
... And unfortunately pushing a lot of racial biology that the Germans eventually picked up on.
Depends where, that’s probably the first thing that will pop up in France if you ask what Pasteur did, before pasteurization (if that’s its “better known work” for you)
It's so frustrating to think nowadays there's morons who both refuse vaccines AND drink raw milk. To some extent it's natural selection I guess, but poor Pasteur would be facepalming so hard.
Holography in 1947 Invented by Dennis Gabor while trying to improve electron microscope resolution; it later became the basis of 3D imaging, data storage and security technology
Its the foil bag that is inside boxed wine. Invented in Australia. Also, when you have drunk all of the piss quality wine in your box of wine you can inflate the Goon bag and use it as a pillow. Alternatively you can play Goon of Fortune. Remove the bag of wine from the box and hang it from a Hills Hoist (another Aussie invention). Gather a group around the rotary hoist and spin it. Whoever the bag stops in front of must drink. Then spin again. Great fun for all the cheap alcoholics at your gathering.
What’s a little fucked up is that this is a great way to store and transport wine. No light, no corked bottles, lightweight, compact. But the wine box is so stigmatized that you never (or at least rarely) find decent wine in one.
Same thing happened for a long time with craft beer. Cans were associated with cheap swill, but they’re way better than bottles for a bunch of different reasons.
Also Google Maps (before Google bought the tech), and the Black Box Flight Recorder, Inflatable Escape Slide, electric drill, Electronic Pacemaker, penicillin for medicinal use (1939, it saved countless lives during WW2).
We also invented Cochlear Implants, Ultrasound Scanner, Plastic Lenses for glasses (spectacles), Gardasil and Cervarix cancer vaccines, and Embryo freezing and IVF. We also invented the artificial womb.
Also lots of of random things such as Permanent Crease fabric/clothing, Racecam (live tv broadcast from inside race cars), a special type of lense (Frazier) that is used in films anf TV today, spray-on-skin (for burn victims etc), baby safety capsule for cars, and the anti flu vaccine.
An Australian also invented Permaculture. That one surprised me.
We also invented the Refrigerator, Powerboard, dual flush toilets, and the Digital Sampler.
We also did a lot of things first. We made the first Feature Film, pre-paid postage, polymer banknotes, and a bunch of specialised passport security measures.
Wikipedia includes a lot of Australian inventions but its not a complete list. Noticeably absent is The Nutbush Dance.
College/University Students will appreciate Goon of Fortune. This game usually requires a Rotary Clothesline (another Aussie invention btw) but some creativity can overcome that hurdle. Get the engineering students in on it for best results.
I am surprised there isn't any Japanese people here with the blue LED or the Flash drive, so many of our modern technology wouldn't be around without these.
There are very few Japanese people on English Reddit. There are a few Japanese language subs. Reddit isn't particularly big here, forums like 5ch are much more popular.
Idk how many people know the story behind its invention. It was pioneered due to massive cholera outbreaks during refugee crisis in 1971 Bangladesh liberation war. It saved thousands of lives of people living in those refugee camps.
There's also Maud Menten, one of the first female physicians of Canada. She developed the Michaelis Menten equation, one of the corner stones of human physiology, together with Leonor Michaelis
The classification of our numerals as 'Arabic' is rendered confusing by the fact that the numerals currently used in Arab countries are quite different.
Technically western numerals are called 'western Arabic numerals' and the numerals Arabs use are called 'eastern Arabic numerals' but it's still confusing.
As an Argentine, three things invented or developed in my country make me proud.
One is the use of sodium citrate for blood transfusions, developed by Luis Agote in 1914, which made safe, indirect transfusions possible.
The other is fingerprint identification: Juan Vucetich developed the system in Argentina, and it was first used there to solve a criminal case before spreading worldwide.
And also René Favaloro, who developed the coronary bypass surgery technique that is still used globally today.
It was actually a Scottish doctor Henry Faulds who first come up with idea of using fingers prints to identify criminals at crime scenes. Juan Vucetich developed the file based data base system, that led to the first criminal conviction using fingers prints.
The earliest existing metal type print originated in Korea. It didn't create the same ripple effect as Gutenberg's metal type, but it's sufficiently meaningful.
It’s interesting to think about how many times the same thing must have been created without the creators having any knowledge.
Not really a creation, but I read the other day that the pig was domesticated twice, once in Southwest Asia, once in what is now China (it was domesticated long enough ago that there wouldn’t be a concept of a China for thousands of years after.)
I sure hope people used it to record important historical information for future generations to use as a reference and not just complaining about subpar copper.
The Haber-Bosch procedure which is what made the green revolution possible by making it possible to produce nitrogen-rich fertilizer at a massive scale. Without this the green revolution would have never taken place and we couldn't produce the huge amounts of food we do today.
Yes, I am an official disciple of Gutenberg because I am a graphic designer and work for a printing company and was gegautscht (like baptism but not in a relegious way, all in the name of black ink) at the end of my apprenticeship.
Word spacing. Irish monks started putting spaces between the words when transcribing Latin and Greek texts in the 7th century. Imaginehavingtoreadeverythinglikethisandtryingtofigureoutwhereonewordendsandanotherbegins.
Wild to think about how underrated this is. Zero isn’t just another number it’s the operating system of modern civilization. No zero = no algebra, no calculus, no computers, no finance as we know it. One abstract idea from ancient India quietly became the backbone of science and technology. Absolute GOAT-tier intellectual achievement.
There are a couple of game changers, the obvious one is LEGO. But Danes also invented the original google maps, which Google bought, besides that another one in the digital world would be C++.
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u/ssuvik Finland 12h ago
Kalsarikännit, which means "drinking alone at your home, wearing nothing but your underwear".